In order to protect porn stars from themselves, the city of Los Angeles has implemented a condom law. Now how do you enforce the law?
Faced with a new law requiring condoms during porn shoots, Los Angeles officials have recommended that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council begin searching for a medical professional to conduct inspections of adult film performances.
In a report issued Wednesday, a working group focused on ways to enforce the new condom ordinance said Film L.A. Inc., the office that processes film permits, should rework its applications so passages that discuss hazardous working conditions and dangerous special effects also mention the “transmission of blood and infectious materials.”
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Still unclear is the amount of the inspection fee that would be charged by the city to adult film producers. The working group asked officials at the Fire Department to come up with an estimate if they were charged with the task and was informed the cost could range from $2,204 to $3,472, Santana said.
Depending on the number of film shoots and the frequency of the spot checks, the task could require more than 100 full-time Fire Department employees and cost more than $1.7 million, officials said.
“It’s hard to establish what the fee should be until we know the actual cost of providing the inspections,” Santana said.
It couldn’t be some run of the mill pervert doing this job.
It will take a health care professional. Imagine going to school for all those years, working all those hours, and the job you get is inspecting porn shoots.
Pitiful.
Set aside the fact that this is porn and all the obvious jokes.
This is another example of government creating regulations (it’s really just a tax) that will do nothing except drive business away. Pornographic movies will continue to be made. They’ll just start filming them somewhere else and any money that was going into the local economy will go to a more welcoming city.
Ever wonder why so many TV shows and movies are filmed in Vancouver?